Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...E.N.I, has produced only a trickle, it is an Italian trickle. That simple appeal has been sufficient to gather public opinion behind the government's position. "If these amendments become law," said a U.S. oilman in Rome, "no major U.S. oil company will do any further exploration or production in Italy. We couldn't afford to." Said an Italian official with unintended ambiguity: "Look, it's simple. We don't want to become a Saudi Arabia or a Venezuela...
...rule had been working well for 15 years, however. The Masters were reluctant to step in themselves, knock off a few early afternoon hours for no reason at all, and thus seem like consumate killjoys. Therefore they decided to wait, knowing that before long students would inevitably appeal for extended parietal hours, thus giving them an opportunity to re-open the whole issue with a vengeance. And in the fall of 1950, sure enough, the seven House Committee chairmen unanimously asked the Masters for permission to entertain women guests until midnight on the Saturdays of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends...
...activities "in the grown-up world", is still abhorrent to them. There is not the slightest chance, therefore, that either the Masters or the Administrative Board will approve the current plea for the 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays hours. In fact, the 1100-odd names backing the appeal may not even convince the Masters that the issue is worthy of serious consideration. This is, after all, just another in a long line of capricious student petitions. As Master Perkins remarked: "I might have signed it myself if I'd been in the dining room at the time...
...remember "the good old days of 1 to 4 p.m. parietal hours," decided that he would try to get these hours back in the interest of "leaving something of value to undergraduates." Last month be circulated a petition urging the Faculty to reinstate these early afternoon hours. The appeal, which quickly gained the signatures of 1100 upperclassmen and the endorsement of the Student Council, is now before the Masters, who will discuss it Tuesday and then make a recommendation to the Administrative Board...
...Harvey, Halliday, and Brewer were not defeated. They prepared to appeal the Superior Court decision before the the State Supreme Court. Brewer drew up a new brief, a 51-page document which cites over a hundred precedents and references, and on May 5, 1955, he argued his case before the full panel of the Court...